Our recent posts on speech sound development and the speech therapy process have proved popular. Speech and Language Therapists tend to use specific terminology when we describe a child’s speech. Although we all know what we mean by this, it isn’t clear to non speech therapists! We aren’t expecting you to be an expert. We […]
We have written about working your speech and language targets into normal, day to day activities before. You can read our tips for bath time, trips to the park and trips to the beach. So today, I am going to talk about working your targets into meal times. Now, if meal times are really hectic […]
Helen’s post last week talked about which sounds your child should be saying and when. If you haven’t seen that post you can read it here. So today, I am going to talk about what we actually do to help a child make and use those sounds. Before I start, please remember if you are concerned […]
If your child is receiving therapy, or you have been practising something at home, how do you know if it’s working? It can be hard when you are with your child every day to notice the small changes that happen and it can feel really disheartening if you think nothing is changing. So here are some ideas […]
Today, we’re delighted to be featuring a guest blog post from Lucy Sanctuary. We reviewed some of her fab books a while ago (you can read that review here). Lucy has also recently started her own blog which is brilliant – do follow this link and check it out. This post first appeared there, but […]
The last week has been a bit of a blur, as I was organising my daughter’s birthday party which was on Saturday! Maybe there are people out there who can manage to do this without it taking over your whole week?! If so, hats off from me! There always seems to be so much to […]
The summer holidays have already arrived for some, and for others are only a day or so away – HOORAY! One thing many parents have asked me this week is how can we keep working on speech and language skills over the 6 week break? So we thought we would continue with our series – […]
At this time of year, the summer holidays are in sight! All my sessions start getting moved around to accommodate school trips, exams and transition days. As I remember from last year, if you have a child in their preschool year, you start to realise that starting school really is only a couple of months […]
We started a series of posts a while ago on encouraging your toddler to talk. You can read the first three posts here, here and here. I have talked about usual language development, what to expect at your speech therapy assessment and some strategies to help your child, such as reducing the number of questions […]
I speak to many parents of younger child who are worried about when those ‘first words’ will come. We are often asked when a child should start to talk and how many words they should have by what age. But it is really important to remember that communicating is much more than words. So before […]
